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Alan Duncan
Research Associate
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B.A. Economics, University of Manchester, 1986
D.Phil Economics, University of York, 1990

Professor Duncan stepped into the role of Director at NATSEM on March 29 2010, leaving his previous position of Professor of Microeconomics and the Head of School at Nottingham School of Economics, University of Nottingham. Professor Duncan joined the University of Nottingham in 1999 as a Reader in Applied Microeconomics and was promoted to Professor of Microeconomics in 2001. He has held positions at the University of York and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) where he is currently a Research Associate.

Professor Duncan’s research interests lie within the fields of welfare program evaluation, the analysis of work incentives, static and behavioural tax microsimulation, econometric models of labour supply, labour market and welfare programme participation, modelling childcare use and the impact of childcare policies, poverty and poverty alleviation, semiparametric and nonparametric estimation methods. He has published widely in these fields such as Econometrica, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applied Econometrics and Fiscal Studies.

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